To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

God won´t make a way where there seems to be no faith.

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.